#malevolent fancast

[wittwell]

Thoughts on a young John Hurt playing Arthur Lester in a hypothetical Malevolent tv Series?

[secret-sageent]

Malevolent Butcher fan cast cuz fuck you

Mads Mikkelsen. I refuse to argue about this one folks

[sunnibits]

thanking all the gods and stars above that Malevolent wasn’t created as a tumblr-beloved live action tv show adaptation in the 2010’s so that I never have to be subjected to Martin Freeman as Arthur Lester

[ylangcandle]

bro no way is that arthur lester

[nikomedes]

listen yadda yadda “it wouldnt make sense the reason arthur moves so easily thru 1930s america is he’s white” yadda “it would inflect a bunch of different story beats” “the masons thing” etc i get it i get it. but also. i do hold fondly in my heart a fancast of rahul kohli as arthur lester. he can do not to be fucked with, he can do mustache, he can do scruffy cabin-dweller, he can do classy, he can do bloody and screaming in conspicuously yellow color grading. he has the range

also he looks good with his throat slit

i do hold british-indian arthur lester portrayed by rahul kohli beloved in my heart, it must be said

[probablybraindead]

im listening to malevolent and i have fancast michael sheen as arthur because to me … that makes sense (also i saw arthur fan art and it looked like michael sheen)

[kittensintinytophats]

So @donnovien and I were chatting about Arthur’s bad habit of dying multiple times and she joked about how he’s trying to surpass the king of on screen deaths, Sean Bean. I jokingly said that if he was 30 years younger he’d be perfect for a Malevolent live-action remake, but I looked up young Sean Bean and it actually kinda works? 

like look at these pics and tell me that’s not Arthur Lester

[v0idspeak]

TMP Stream Notes

Alright, so I was the non-designated notetaker for the Statement Remains server, and so I have Notes for you all. Enjoy. (this is everything that has been unlocked during the stream. Update: 350k stretch goal reached! Narrative musical album unlocked

TMP Update: Thanks to us reaching like all the stretch goals, the show will feature -24 Rusty Quill Network guest writers -Full 90 episodes (3 seasons of 30 episodes) -6 of the episodes will be double-length (44ish minutes instead of 22ish) -ambiance tracks for all of the seasons of the show -Expanded listen-along fancasts (15 per season currently) -Epilogues (1 per season, 10min) -6 spin-off Podcasts -12 TTRPG episodes -3 "what-if" episodes (canon divergence) -3 Fluff episodes (1 per season) -Complete retrospective on The Magnus Archives with some "special people" -Making-Of Documentary (secrets, footage from conception (NOW!) to release, footage of Jonny having tea denied to him) -NARRATIVE MUSICAL ALBUM (sorry I'm v excited about this one) - Concept Album!

Non-monetary/early goals -The Forest Livestream -2h long writing workshop with Alex!

Next goal: 400k: Purchase at a discount a full professional grade supercardioid Magnus-branded microphone

Livestream additional content (Serious edition) -Potential 1mil GHunt show???? Maybe??!?!?? -Lowri (TMA producer) may be in TMP, possibly as a voice actor. -List of guest writers: (not in order) Tonia Ransom (Afflicted, Nightlight), Dylan Griggs (Woe Begone / Diary of Aliza Schultz), KC Wayland (Were Alive), David Devereax (Tin Can Audio Presents), Jon Ware and Muna Hussen (Silt Verses), Cole Weavers (The Town Whispers / Tiny Terrors) Jeremy Enfinger & Nathan Lundsford (The Storage Papers), Harlan Guthrie (Malevolent and part of Dice Shame), Alex C. Telander (Ostium), Jamie Petronis (The Cellar Letters), David Carlson (The Hyacinth Disaster), Chris McClure (The Milkman of St. Gaffs), Lex Noteboom (The Deca Tapes), Shaun Pellington (Wake of Corrosion), Steve Shells (Old Gods of Appalachia), Walker Kornfeld, Steven and Marl Anzalone (The Sleep/Wake cycle, Maeltopia) -Spinoff content written by Sasha Sienna -Jonny will record the full Jurgen Leitner rant and anyone who asks for it in the 30s message tier will get a random bit of it

(Meme edition) -Alex thinks ghosts are real and he wants to punch one -There's a phantom fire in Alex's house -Amogus! -Jonny is very proficient in Goncharov lore -Scrotocol Protocol Activated -We're wrong. Always. -The Helen Distortion and the Unscrungling of the Helen -You can be both blorbo and skrunkly

[ghtlovesthg]

I think I just figured out who I’d fancast as Dr. Gaul! Patricia Clarkson - She is so great, she’s nailed roles that are sly, quirky, creepy, kind, malevolent, wise, and bonkers, and she can switch between any of those things at the drop of a hat!

[thisiswhatwereupagainst]

Obscure Marvel fancast of the day: Saraya Jade Bevis aka “Paige” of the WWE as Black Mamba aka Tanya Sealy! Born in Chicago, Tanya Sealy was a professional escort selected by Roxxon Oil Company to undergo bio-modifications that would given her superpowers in order to serve as their agent. Since her mission entailed retrieving the magical Serpent Crown from the bottom of the sea, she and the three others selected all received subtle gills to breath (and even speak) underwater as well as withstand the pressure, then individualized powers. Tanya’s individual powers are that she can summon the Darkforce (a darkness energy that comes from the Darkforce dimension, which many Marvel characters with darkness powers draw on, such as Cloak, Darkstar, and Silhouette) and channel it into a “skin” or “love phantom”. This “skin” just looks like a human shadow to onlookers, but to Black Mamba’s victim, it appears to be the person they love or desire most. The love phantom then embraces them, hypnotizing them so they cannot fight back, and appears to mentally drain the target, allowing Tanya to subdue or even kill them. Black Mamba and the other members of the “Serpent Squad” eventually left Roxxon, and one among them, Seth Vooelker aka Sidewinder, started his own supervillainous organization, The Serpent Society. The Serpent Society was essentially a guild for bad guy mercenaries, and worked a lot like a normal company or labor union in terms, offering its members good wages, safe lodging, health insurance, pensions, better access to technology/weapons, and a guarantee that the teleporting Sidewinder would always spring them from jail. The only requisite was that its members must all be named after snakes. Sidewinder’s first recruits were the former Serpent Squad members, including Black Mamba, who has been a member ever since. However, she has on occasion branched out on her own with her fellow Society members and best friends, Asp and Diamondback, as the B.A.D Girls. She’s also worked as a model, and has been tempted to drop crime altogether in favor of that. Though Black Mamba is a mercenary who will kill if she’s paid enough, she’s not a malicious or malevolent person. She seems a fun-loving sort, and is very loyal to her friends, to the point of taking considerable risks for them. She considers sex and romance very important things, not just for herself but for others, defending Diamondback’s right to be with Captain America (an enemy of the Serpent Society) and horrified to Viper’s celibate and loveless lifestyle. She gives a lot of life advice to her friends, and is especially keen to help them with dating. She is apparently heterosexual, as when she found out that the villain Superia wanted to eliminate men from the world, she was opposed to the idea and said such a world would be boring! As far as her own love life goes, she seems to have been involved with Sidewinder, though that may only have been in the capacity of an escort.

[captainclickycat]

I think you could have a lot of fun comparing Crowley to Moist Von Lipwig in terms of moral ambiguity (which I know for a fact that at least one other person has done a better job of than me, but I’ve lost that post now.) They both do bad, or at least morally shady, things and enjoy them; they take a professional pride in what they do, but they won’t take it *too* far. They fit more of a “lovable rogue” archetype, rather than being actively evil or malevolent. The evil in their smaller individual actions lies in their far-reaching, trickle-down effect (Crowley acknowledges this from the off, Moist doesn’t until it’s pointed out to him.) They both have different ways of rationalising and justifying their actions to themselves, to let themselves sleep at night, so to speak.

...There’s a more coherent point here in my head, somewhere. Also I sort of fancast David Tennant as Moist too which doesn’t hurt. (The face doesn’t quite work, but he’d act it very well)

[organchordsandlightning]

cursed john malevolent fancast is young Biff Tannen from back to the future 2

[dalekofchaos]

My problem with Stanley Kubrick’s version of The Shining and why it deserves to be remade

I have a love and hate relationship when it comesto Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. To be clear I do not completely hate it. The atmosphere, the location and aesthetic of The Overlook Hotel and the cinematography of the Kubrick movie is what makes it good and I love it as a horror movie. What makes it bad is calling itself an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining but ignoring everything about the book, completely changing the characters and overall butchering the story just to stroke Kubrick’s inflated ego. I think it deserves a good remake that is true to the novel but taking the aspects of the Kubrick movie such as the atmosphere of The Overlook Hotel but staying true to the characters and story of the novel. I did my fancast here.   I like the movie and appreciate it for what it is. I just think it's a failure as an adaptation. It stands on its own very well and deserves its spot on all-time top movie lists.

In Stephen King’s own words. “The book is hot, and the movie is cold; the book ends in fire, and the movie in ice. In the book, there’s an actual arc where you see this guy, Jack Torrance, trying to be good, and little by little he moves over to this place where he’s crazy. And as far as I was concerned, when I saw the movie, Jack was crazy from the first scene. I had to keep my mouth shut at the time. It was a screening, and Nicholson was there. But I’m thinking to myself the minute he’s on the screen, ‘Oh, I know this guy. I’ve seen him in five motorcycle movies, where Jack Nicholson played the same part.’ And it’s so misogynistic. I mean, Wendy Torrance is just presented as this sort of screaming dishrag. But that’s just me, that’s the way I am.”

Stanley Kubrick didn’t respect Stephen King. According to Diane Johnson, the credited screenwriter of THE SHINING, Kubrick was at one point contemplating two different properties at the same time—Stephen King’s novel The Shining and Johnson’s own novel The Shadow Knows.  Kubrick chose King’s novel… then hired Johnson to adapt it.  King had already written a screenplay based on his novel, but Kubrick reportedly discarded it immediately.  Johnson accepted the job, but not without reservations.  In a 2011 interview with Mark Steensland, she conceded that she was “not a big Stephen King fan,” or even a “big horror story fan.”  Furthermore, she thought that THE SHINING novel was “pretentious” and “predictable.”  Not exactly an auspicious beginning.  

The aspects of the supernatural are completely ignored. There are ghosts and The Overlook Hotel is a living entity.  The motivation of the ghosts is to possess Jack Torrance to get him to kill Danny; if Danny dies in the Overlook, his "shining" ability will be absorbed along with all the other awful energies that are manifest there; the hotel itself is a sentient entity and so would become far more powerful and able to extend its powers beyond the confines of its grounds.  The motive is more ambiguous but seems to be to "reclaim" Jack , who is apparently a reincarnation of a previous caretaker of the hotel, as suggested by the 1920s photograph of Jack and Jack's repeated claims to have "not just a deja vu". 

Kubrick did not understand the character of Jack Torrance. King objected to the casting of Jack Nicholson. Jack Torrance in the novel is a good man who made a terrible mistake due to his alcoholism and struggles with being a good man and being good to his family, while Jack struggles with alcoholism and authority issues and the Overlook Hotel slowly drives Jack insane. In King’s own words “The character of Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie. Absolutely no arc at all. When we first see Jack Nicholson, he’s in the office of Mr. Ullman, the manager of the hotel, and you know, then, he’s crazy as a shit house rat. All he does is get crazier. In the book, he’s a guy who’s struggling with his sanity and finally loses it. To me, that’s a tragedy. In the movie, there’s no tragedy because there’s no real change.”  With Nicholson as Jack Torrance, Jack is crazy from the beginning of the movie, doesn’t even seem to like his family and is annoyed by their mere presence. King fought against Nicholson because he’s seen him in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Nicholson pretty much plays the same character in every movie and did not fit the character King created. The casting of Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance undermined the moral struggle at the heart of the story. King reportedly tried to get the filmmakers to consider Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Jon Voight and Martin Sheen as alternatives to Nicholson. Hell, a friend of mine suggested Christopher Reeve as a good choice to play Jack Torrance and he damn well would have been perfect to play Jack Torrance. But Kubrick’s mind was made up… because, it seems, Kubrick wanted Jack Torrance to be “nuts to begin with.”  The filmmaker said, “Jack comes to the hotel psychologically prepared to do its murderous bidding.  He doesn’t have much further to go from his anger and frustration to become completely uncontrollable.  He is bitter about his failure as a writer.  He is married to a woman with whom he has only contempt.  He hates his son….”  For King, those were fighting words. Especially since The Shining ends with Jack sacrificing himself to save Wendy and Danny and explodes with the Overlook/

The casting, the horrid treatment and portrayal of Shelly Duvall as Wendy Torrance.  In his 1979 interview with Fangoria, King claimed that he saw Wendy Torrance as “a kind of middle-intelligence, beautiful piece.” Stanley Kubrick, however, had a different idea.  He told Soho News, “I think Shelley Duvall, in addition to being a wonderful actress, perfectly embodied the kind of woman who remains married to a man like Jack Torrance, even though she knows he has brutally assaulted their son.  You certainly couldn’t have Jane Fonda play the part; you need someone who is mousy and vulnerable.” not only that, but Kubrick decided to mentally and emotionally torture Shelly Duvall on set.  Apparently, he was determined to help get her into character by browbeating her like an abusive husband.  King’s character would have fought back. Hell I JUST found out that the Supreme Jessica Lange ALMOST played Wendy Torrance and god that would have been perfect, not only would she have been absolutely perfect to play Wendy, but she would not take Kubrick’s bullshit.

Dick Hollarann. In the book.  Danny's shine tell him that he is known as Dick to his friends. Dick also asks Danny if he wants to go to Florida with him multiple times. Danny asks why the woman wanted to get in the car guy's pants. The conversation when Dick explains the shining takes place in his car, and he tests Danny to see how strong his shine is. Also Dick is very friendly and kind to Danny. Dick in the movie.  Dick asks Danny if he wants some Ice Cream. Dick explains the shining in the kitchen and is not very kind to Danny. In the book Dick Hollarann was meant to live. Danny contacted Dick with his shining to save them. He is knocked out by Jack. He rescues Wendy and Danny and goes on to be Danny’s father figure and a positive influence on Danny in Doctor Sleep. In the movie Dick is brought back to the Overlook and killed for no reason. I honestly would be fine with the movie if Dick lived.

The ending. In the ending of the novel. Jack does not kill Dick Hollarann, just knocks him out. He doesn’t kill anyone. The boiler must be dumped several times a day or it will explode. After his mental breakdown from the ghosts of the overlook, Jack regains his sanity and  tells Danny and Wendy to get out and tries to relieve the pressure in the boiler. He fails and the building explodes killing him. In general, Stephen King’s problem with Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING is that it’s too “cold.”  In the end the characters succumb to the malevolent influences of the Overlook, and there is no indication that their story could end any other way.  According to King, Kubrick had always planned to change the ending of the novel.  In 1978 the novelist said that the filmmaker initially “asked me for my opinion on Hallorann becoming possessed, and then finishing the job that Torrance started, killing Danny, Wendy, and lastly himself.”  Kubrick envisioned a coda in which the family would appear as ghosts, now permanently trapped in the Overlook.  King responded that “audiences would have his head if faced with the slaughter of characters they cared about.”King himself had already wrestled with the possibility of a tragic ending to his story.    He told interviewer Marty Ketchum that, when he was writing the novel, “the original plan was for them all to die up there and for Danny to become the controlling force of the hotel after he died.”  When it came time to write the words, however, King couldn’t do it.  The note of hope at the end of The Shining novel is emblematic of the general “warmth” of Stephen King’s work.  He is a romantic and a guarded optimist.  Kubrick, it seems, was not.